Lure of Anti-Semitism

Michel Wieviorka, Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and President of the International Sociological Association. He has published in particular on racism (The Arena of Racism, 1995) and on terrorism (The Making of Terrorism, 2003).

• CONTENTSPART ONE BACKGROUNDIntroduction 1. What Do the Statistics Tell Us? 2. In Schools 3. Changes in the Public Sphere 4. The Shoah: Deficit, Plethora and Loss of Meaning 5. Global Anti-Semitism 6. The Jews in France: Developments and Concerns Conclusion PART TWO GHETTO ANTI-SEMITISMIntroduction 7. Anti-Semitism (almost) without Jews 8. The Power of the Imagination 9. A Sociological Intervention 10. Muslim Anti-Semitism: The View from Prison Conclusion PART THREE ANTI-SEMITISM AND COMMUNITIESIntroduction 11. The Jews, the ChaldoAssyrians and the Others 12. Anti-Semitism at Local Level 13. An Unusual Variant of ‘Global’ Anti-Semitism 14. “Why There Were No Clashes in Sarcelles” 15. The Marseilles Counterpoint: The Pieds-noirs and the Jews PART FOUR IN ALSACEIntroduction 16. The Fears of the Jews in Alsace 17. Malaise in the Alsatian Countryside 18. Two Extreme Right Political Forces, Two Anti-Semitic Rationales 19. Mohammed Latrèche and the Parti des musulmans de France20. Desecrations Conclusion PART FIVE IN THE UNIVERSITIESIntroduction 21. Boycotting Israel 22. Two Extreme Cases of Anti-Zionism 23. Leftism in Decline and Extreme Anti-Zionism ConclusionPART SIX ANTI-SEMITISM: A QUESTION IN SCHOOLS?Introduction 24. The Clamour of the Media and the Silence of the Teachers 25. Dealing with the Shoah in Schools 26. Ethnic Diversity in Schools 27. Abuse and Attacks 28. Anti-Semitism in Schools and Globalisation General Conclusion